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Clan MacPhee/MacFie Descended from a Selkie

The origins of Clan MacFie/MacPhee and all it's name variations are said to be descended from a Selkie or seal woman. Selkies are a mythical people who can change from human form to seal form with ...

Topics: MacFie, MacPhee

The Legend of Twinlaw Cairns

by Nadine Lee

The Twinlaw Cairns, Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian This weekend I visited my friends in the countryside, as I had heard there was going to be snow. Being from a semi-tropical climate, snow is still...

Topics: Ancient Scots, East Lothian, Lammermuir Hills, Legends, Saxons, Twinlaw Cairns

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Evil Laird Pringle and the Haunting of Buckholm Tower

by Amanda Moffet

One evening in the 1680s, as the light was starting to fade and the colour of day drained away turning eveything to grey an ominous dark character can be seen striding over Ladhope Moor with two lar...

Topics: Clan Pringle

MacQueen's battle with the last Wolf

by Amanda Moffet

One of the visitors to our site has told us about a MacQueen legend. She found it on a microfiche taken from a book published in the about Clan MacQueen, which is now sadly out of print. There...

Topics: Chattan, MacIntosh, MacQueen

The Kind Scottish Wulver

by Amanda Moffet

Wulvers are ofter called werewolves, but legend shows they are quite different. Said to inhabit the Shetland Islands off the coast of northeast Scotland. The ancient Celts believed that the Wulv...

Topics: Scottish Myths, Wulver

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